Monday March 27th Another very foggy morning in SE Texas. It's 69° this morning. And very very muggy. Over the weekend my wife and I were talking and my ex employer came up. During COVID they shut down their operations in Houston and I was wondering what they were doing…
Tuesday March 21st What a difference a day can make ... The temperature this morning is 62°. The high today is going to be closing in on 80°. Welcome to spring. Once again, it's totally overcast. That's pretty much been the story of this winter.. mostly cloudy. I'm sitting on…
Monday March 20th Welcome Spring... Today I woke to an outside temperature of 35°. According to the guys at Space Center Weather this should be the last time we see temperatures this low for a good long while... The grandkids are headed back to school after being off all last…
Saturday March 18th It's another wet and chilly morning. A light rain is falling. The temperature is 45°. It's almost 9:00 a.m. and it's still dark and gloomy out. Between all of the pollen in the air and the temperature changes I'm really sniffing and snorting around here. Since I'm…
Friday March 17th The world outside looks green. But that's appropriate for St Patrick's Day... This morning it's raining. The temperature is 46° but the wind chill has it feeling like 40°. And there's a steady north wind of at least 15 mph with gusts of 25 mph. So once…
Thursday March 16th It's a warmish muggy morning. Heavily overcast. The temperature is 71°. I waited to take the pictures above but the sky hasn't changed since before sunup. The weather today should be interesting.. starting out warm and cooling down overnight. The prognosticators are even foretelling of rain passing…
Tuesday March 14th Last Quarter Moon over the Backyard It's another beautiful spring morning. There's a slight breeze from the north blowing this morning. And the temperature is a spring-like 54°. Yesterday ended up being an absolutely spectacular day for most of the area, except perhaps southwest of Galveston, which…
Monday March 13th Spring has returned. The temperature this morning is 56°. And it feels much more spring-like on the back porch. It's breezy. The wind's blowing out of the northeast making the tree limbs dance. Happy Monday, y’all! We tacked on two more 80 degree days over the weekend,…
Thursday February 23rd Out on the porch this morning... It's a warm 70° with just a bit of humidity. It kind of looks like we're back in the pattern of overcast mornings. The kind of days that look seasonal, you know it looks like it ought to be cold out,…
Tuesday February 14th Valentine's Day Two years ago on this date the deep freeze settled in on Texas. This morning the temperature is 69°. Texas weather... As they say, just wait a few minutes and it'll change. According to the prognosticators, it'll be in the upper, upper 70s today (may…
Friday February 3rd What can you say about the weather this week? The only word that comes to my mind is... Ditto... Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat Though, no sooner did I start this post, then the sun broke through the clouds ... It's the end of a law in jury…
Thursday February 2nd It's another of these long dreary days. It's 41° and there's a light misty rain falling. It's the same light Misty rain that was falling last night before bedtime. According to the guys at Space City Weather, this week will be the last of our coolish winter…
Tuesday January 31st Just another in a long line of overcast starts to a cold and dreary day. It's 40° this morning with maybe a 10° warm up as the day goes by before we start out tomorrow at 40° with only a 5° warmer. To the north and west…
Monday January 30th It's another dreary winter day. The temperature this morning was 50°. It's damp... it's breezy... it's chilly. But, all in all, it's not a bad day for the end of January. Although, it does look a little too green out. Since the temperatures are predicted to stay…
Sunday January 29th It's another spring-like day in Southeast Texas... Wet, temperate, breezy... Not what you would expect for the end of January. The temperature right now is 73°. It's already rained enough for water to be standing in all the low spots. And from the looks of the forecast,…
Saturday January 28th It was 60° this morning on the back porch. It's been raining lightly off and on. According to the prognosticators we can expect this weather pattern to last for most of the week. I saw something that I haven't seen in a while this morning. A round…
Tuesday January 17th It's not feeling much like winter this morning... 67° before the sun comes up... and as the world outside my window lights up... there's a bit of fog hanging around. I've always been impressed with how, around here anyway, when it looks the most like winter is…
Tuesday The sun is up... The sky is a deep blue. Cloudless. It's a blue that only appears in winter. On cold, crisp mornings. Maybe we should name it... Winter's Blue... We are in the post Christmas doldrums. The days between Christmas and New Years... Between anticipation and anxiety... The…
Friday This Old PorchThe weather outside is frightful... My Old Porch, Christmas Morning 2004 This old porch is just a long timeOf waiting and forgettingAnd remembering the coming backAnd not crying about the leavingAnd remembering the falling downAnd the laughter of the curse of luckFrom all of those sons-of-bitchesWho said…
Thursday Winter is coming... Real Winter... Not this fake stuff we normally have pass thru Houston on the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Hard freeze all the way to the coast. All of the local governments are getting upset,,, but they are still shutting down for a long Christmas…
Tuesday While it's not cold out per se... It does have a look of winter. The temperature is hovering right around the 50° mark where it will pretty much stay for the next two days. The prognosticators are foretelling that we might even see 70° temperatures before the bottom falls…
Monday The calm before the storm... There is an overcast to the day... A heaviness hanging in the air... A portent of expectations blowing on the winds... A coastal low pressure system is helping to drive rain showers across the metro area this morning, and these will continue on and…
Friday It's almost 10° warmer this morning. Still, it's much more seasonable than the above 70° start we've been having. The Christmas Day forecast is out... The low Christmas morning will be in the '30s. The high Christmas Day will just reach 50°... About what it is right now. It…
Thursday It's finally feeling like the season... again. After teasing us with an early week of colder than normal weather, Mother Nature brought summer back for a long visit... Today we've moved back to feeling like it looks... 42 degrees on the porch this morning. I guess it's time to…
Thursday Well, once again it's warm and muggy. The temperature starting today is 72°. Almost all of the leaves have fallen from the Red Oak. The pictures above show yesterday and today's leaf coverage. And with the overcast that starts each day, it really looks like winter outside though decidedly…
Friday And just like that, the weather, she has turned on a dime... The morning temperature is 64°. And the humidity is up. Which makes the fall colors pop. At this point I almost feel like I'm living in one of GC Myers red tree paintings. For my whole life…
Thanksgiving Thursday After the summer we've had, I feel I should be giving thanks for the rain we are having... But as much as I love slow and steady, 2 inches in 2 hours is a bit much! Of course, when you are expecting 20 people for dinner, and all…
Rain Even a slow and steady rain can add up when it comes down all day....
Saturday It's a cool 49° and raining. My bald cypress is starting to get it's color on. But without any Chinese tallow trees around the area the fall colors haven't taken off yet. And since the first trees to be cleared whenever anyone clears land are the tallows, they are…
Monday Awake with the light of day just brightening the morn and the wind chimes on the front porch are having one hell of a conversation. Our little bit of winter has backed of for just one day with a almost fall like morning... for just a day! The prognosticators…
